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An easy to grow shrub with white flowers in spring, and orange/red friut in summer. Excellent as a specimen, or as a screen or hedge.

The foliage of Gold Heart is chartreuse with rose/pink blooms in spring. A nice contrast in a shade garden.

What a weird and wonderful tulip! I should get some of these :)

This plant only grows endemically to the Namib Desert of Africa. It only has two leaves which it retains for its whole life.

This plant is quite poisonous and dangerous. I found this link with some stories of what happened when a few people came into contact with the sap. Just scroll down until you find E. cooperi. It will be the one with the biggest paragraph of material. - http://www.theamateursdigest.com/epoisons.htm

Occurs naturally from the Hunter River in NSW to Atherton in QLD, Aust, rainforests. Due to the shelter it gets in a rainforest from other trees, when planted in the open it is prone to brittle branches in strong winds. Mulch well, and cultivate rich loamy soil deeply to encourage deep roots or they can tend to root shallowly in the mulch layer. Does well as a street tree in temperate dry summer Adelaide. Will grow tall in natural habitat, shorter and bushier in the open. Add a bit of lime to soil mix. It's only similarity to the frangipani is in the appearance of the flowers. I will use it on the edge of a rainforest section of garden, where it will buffer winds from tree ferns, and provide look that will lend itself to rainforest but integrate well with the garden adjoining. it's 6 months or so since I wrote this, although in its natural habitat it occurs in sweeter soils, it's doing well in our highly acidic mineral earth. : )

When the lovely, colorful yellow blossoms are on the Forsythia, I know it is time to prune the Roses!

The forsythia genus and even individual species are varied as density is concerned. The denser growth bushes would be more ideal for hedging. These have gorgeous full yellow blooms in April.